re: Fishing/boating on someone else’s property to remain illegal

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So your argument is land and water should be the same.

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I am not making an argument. I am pointing out flaws in other's.

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What other state in the nation does this?

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Does what? Allow owners of water bottoms to restrict boat access? Florida for sure. Possibly Tx. I cannot remember. But anyway, why does it matter what other states do?

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They don't stay in the same area their entire lives.

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Interesting observation.

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Does what? Allow owners of water bottoms to restrict boat access? Florida for sure.

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really? I seem to remember a post here regarding some dock owner harassing a fisherman in Florida somewhere and people were pissed.

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But anyway, why does it matter what other states do?

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We should have the same rights other states do with our natural resources.

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really? I seem to remember a post here regarding some dock owner harassing a fisherman in Florida somewhere and people were pissed.

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That was public water. Would be like a Toledo Bend dock owner doing it.

Here's the AG opinion from Florida.

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The use of the term "manmade" in describing canals compels me to state that if the owner of the land underneath the artificially created body of water has never made the water above available to the public, then the owner, in a sense, controls fishing in the body of water by controlling the means of access to it, even for one who has a proper license or permit to take fish and even if the season is lawful for the taking of fish from other water in the area.

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Advisory Legal Opinion - AGO 75-167
Number: AGO 75-167
Date: June 9, 1975
Subject: Fishing and traffic in manmade canals

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We should have the same rights other states do with our natural resources.

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Why?

I've watched this issue closely, and heard a number of the access proponents continuously state they don't dispute the ownership of the banks or water bottoms, but that the waters and fish that swim in them are public, so they must be allowed access. Given this acknowledgement, should I assume they won't anchor, or use push poles when fishing these areas? To do so would be trespassing.

And given their argument, what would prevent someone from duck hunting out of a kayak or boat in these areas, assuming it wasn't anchored?

iPilot baw

We want to fish a natural resource.... Nothing is free about fishing.... I will pay for the boat, gear and gas..... We want to fish ..... Stop trying to say it’s a land grab and we want free stuff.....

I lied. I’m back for one more hit.

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We want to fish a natural resource.... Nothing is free about fishing.... I will pay for the boat, gear and gas..... We want to fish .....

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By this reasoning I should be able to drill oil or cut timber or farm on anyone else’s land.

It’s a “natural resource”. I’ll provide my own equipment. You won’t even notice I was there. Swearsies.

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Excuse us for trying to be Americans.

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You’re not Americans. You’re Commie’s if I ever heard them.

Aaaannnnnddddd on that note of sarcasm NOW I’m out.

A Democrat set the framework for all of these public lands. You wouldn’t dare hunt or fish any of these, would you?

Exactly..... we want what we see other states have.... To hear B.A.S.S. and FLW’s stance on Louisiana’s water access laws makes me feel embarrassed.... As a state we are losing out so a select few can have their private Sportsman’s Paradise...... This isn’t the same swamp and marshland I grew up Fishing and I am ashamed it is being gated off so future generations can’t enjoy it like I did as a kid...